HueComb

Violet Vision

#b7bdd1

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#b7bdd1

RGB

183, 189, 209

OKLCh

80.0% 0.029 272.4°

CIELAB (D50)

76.6, 0.8, -10.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 29% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.5; on black, Lc -67.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.5 — no blue cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#717689 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b7bdd1

protanopia

#bcbcd1 · ΔE00 3.0

deuteranopia

#bbbbd1 · ΔE00 3.1

tritanopia

#babae0 · ΔE00 6.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArctic Ice at ΔE00 0.7: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.